Drop down menus and mysql insertion

[aspekt9]

I'm looking to create drop down boxes for a user to select the date and then have it insert what they select for month, day, year, hour, minutes and insert it into mysql. It needs to be organized in a timestamp like so: 2007-02-28 21:06:40

 

I've created the drop down boxes and it works pretty well:

 

function selectCurrentDate($currentMonth, $currentDay, $currentYear, $currentHour, $currentMins, $currentSecs) 
{
$display = '';
    // Month Array 
    $monthNames = array('January', 'Feburary', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 
              'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December'); 
     
    // MaxNumber of days in a month (will need to write more robust code) 
    $maxDays = 31; 
// Start year
$startYear = 2000;
// Display years up to max years
    $maxYears = 2050;
// Max hours to display
$maxHour = 12;
// Max minutes to display
$maxMinutes = 59;
// Max seconds to display
$maxSeconds = 59;
    // Begin Month select menu 
    $display .= 'Select event date: <select name="theMonth">'; 

    // Loop through each month 
    foreach ($monthNames as $myMonth) 
    { 
        // If month is equal to $currentMonth passed in, select 
        if($currentMonth == $myMonth) 
            $display .= '<option value="'. $myMonth .'" selected>' . $myMonth . '</option>'; 
        else 
            $display .= '<option value="'. $myMonth .'">' . $myMonth . '</option>'; 
    } 

    // end select     
    $display .= '</select> '; 
     
    // Begin Day select Menu 
    $display .= ' <select name="theDay">'; 

    // Loop through the max number of days 
    for($i = 1; $i < $maxDays; $i++) 
    { 
        if($i == $currentDay) 
            $display .= '<option value="'. $i .'" selected>'. $i.'</option>'; 
        else 
            $display .= '<option value="'. $i .'">'. $i.'</option>'; 
    } 
     // end day select
    $display .= '</select>';

    // Display year select
$display .= ' <select name="theYear">';

// Loop through max number of years
for($i = $startYear; $i <= $maxYears; $i++) 
    { 
        if($i == $currentYear) 
            $display .= '<option value="'. $i .'" selected>'. $i.'</option>'; 
        else 
            $display .= '<option value="'. $i .'">'. $i.'</option>'; 
    }
$display .= '</select>';

// Begin hour select
$display .= ' <select name="theHour">';

for($h = 1; $h <= $maxHour; $h++)
{
	if($h == $currentHour)
		$display .= '<option value="'. $h .'" selected>'. $h.'</option>';
	else
		$display .= '<option value="'. $h .'">'. $h.'</option>';
}
$display .= '</select>';

// Begin minute display
$display .= '<select name="theMinutes">';

for($m = 1; $m <= $maxMinutes; $m++)
{
	if($m == $currentMins)
		$display .= '<option value="'. $m .'" selected>'. $m.'</option>';
	else
		$display .= '<option value="'. $m .'">'. $m.'</option>';
}
$display .= '</select>';

// Begin second display
$display .= '<select name="theSeconds">';

for($s = 1; $s <= $maxSeconds; $s++)
{
	if($s == $currentSecs)
		$display .= '<option value="'. $s .'" selected>'. $s.'</option>';
	else
		$display .= '<option value="'. $s .'">'. $s.'</option>';
}
$display .= '</select>';	
return $display;
} 
$curmonth = date('F');
$curday = date('j');
$curyear = date('Y');
$curhour = date('g');
$curmin = date('i');
$cursecs = date('s');

echo selectCurrentDate($curmonth,$curday,$curyear,$curhour,$curmin,$cursecs); 

 

Now how would I organize all the data into a timestamp. Once it's in the form of the timestamp it'll be easy to insert it into mysql. Could I do something like:

 

	$events = mysql_query("INSERT INTO timestamp, DATE_FORMAT(date, '%M %e, %Y %h:%m:%s') as something?
            date,  FROM calevents") or die(mysql_error());

 

I don't really get how the options work

Thanks for the suggestions

[ted_chou12]

your question dont seem to match your title, and i believe all that you have posted is not a necessity, except the last part where your question is, timestamp is:

"Y-m-d H:i:s"

Ted